Exhibition Reflection: What I Thought

Exhibition, held on Thursday, April, 17th, overall went well and was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. During the first forty minutes my group (C) was free to roam about the school. We went into the Great Room and looked at the other projects, one of which had to do with a game called "Clue". This time period was very interesting and gave us somewhat of an idea of what we would be doing over the next three years.

Next, we were to do Humanities shift. We worked at our station on the actual project while visitors came around and asked us questions. During this time period we were to actually work on the project to show the people our process and how we were actually accomplishing this task.

I think that some of the strengths of this shift were that we explained things thoroughly and engaged our audience with tales of witchhunt and such. One weakness that I noticed was that sometimes we weren't sure how to explain what exactly Puritans were. I knew that their religion was very similiar to the Catholic religion, if not exactly that.

Throughout this shift, we came across some challenges. Mr. Nuthall did come over and ask many questions that were difficult to explain at times. Finally, in the end I ended up explaining the entire history of the Salem Witch Trials and how they came about to avoid the awkward questions. The questions that were asked were somewhat intense. My favorite part of this shift was when a woman and I had a very interesting conversation about witchcraft. I truly enjoyed this part.

Finally, for the final shift, we were in Ms. Mohr's room and were presenting to people who came to our booths what the project was and how we used trigonometry and such to take pictures. This was interesting because a lot of people had many interesting questions about our project.

Some strengths that I found that Christian and I displayed was that we were able to explain everything that we were asked about light. We told people the answers to their questions and more. We definetely showed the visitors how much we knew about light and how we made the cameras and why and why not our pictures came out.

During this time we came across a few obstacles. Our pictures did not come out the best, for as simple a reason as technical difficulties. It was a little tiring having to tell people the number of things that could have gone wrong with our camera. A few parents also asked some intense questions.

If we were to do exhibition again, I would definetely research my Spanish before hand, considering we did have a visitor who didn't know very much English. But, other than that, overall the exhibition night went well.

-Shellina